The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 32, sentence 91

One day, when the fisherman had gone out as usual to cast his nets, he saw borne towards him on the current a cradle of crystal.

Who acts: fisherman · What happens: go out, cast, bear · To what, where: nets, fisherman, current

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fisherman), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gone	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 day	punct
4	when	when	SCONJ	_	8 gone	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fisherman	det
6	fisherman	fisherman	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gone	nsubj
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 gone	aux
8	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
9	out	out	ADP	_	8 gone	compound:prt
10	as	as	ADP	_	11 usual	case
11	usual	usual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 gone	xcomp
12	to	to	PART	_	13 cast	mark
13	cast	cast	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 usual	xcomp
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 nets	nmod:poss
15	nets	net	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 cast	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 borne	punct
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 borne	nsubj
18	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 borne	aux:pass
19	borne	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 gone	conj
20	towards	towards	ADP	_	21 him	case
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 borne	obl
22	on	on	ADP	_	24 current	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 current	det
24	current	current	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 borne	obl
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 cradle	det
26	cradle	cradle	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 current	appos
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 crystal	case
28	crystal	crystal	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 cradle	nmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 gone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go out	past · perfect	the fisherman			day	usual property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	cast	to-infinitive	the fisherman not said here	fisherman's nets				vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent net=Product
3	bear	past · passive		fisherman	the current		towards bird	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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